Sorry people, I always forget to put the prologue in. Here it is.

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I shove a demon off of me as I un-sheath my sword and continue on to the next one.

And the next.

And the next.

Up until I hear a high pitched scream, and lose concentration, allowing the evil creature to take a swipe at my head. I block with my arm, but it hurts, and I hardly have use of my arm. The pain is only numb, though.

That is, until I see the blood trickling down my forearm.

Suddenly I feel sick, and the demon is just staring at me.

It reaches its hand out and I flinch away, expecting it to connect with my face.

Which it does, but the touch was soft and gentle. I inched away in fright, hoping that the demon wouldn’t see me moving, and I could escape to find whoever just screamed. Its eyes grew to a bright red color, like mine, but then it was like realization dawned over the demon, and its eyes were pitch black as the moonless night.  

I scurried away enough to try and grab my knife out of my back pocket but the demon lunged into me and used its long, needlepoint nails to rip my body to shreds.

I hear another scream, this time more like a battle cry, and the creature was shoved off of me.  An amazing blue light filled the room, and I am carried out of the folds of darkness in the Nothing by someone-who?-

I wake with a startle and look around to find where I am. All I see is darkness. Again.